Indiviual Analysis

Every indiviual follows thier own relgion and tranditions that affect their daily lives and beliefs. The experiences potrayed to them as sacred and/or holy become a guide to sort out human experience. Through the stories presented to us, whether it may be during childhood or adulthood, we start to imagine our lives revolving around those and start to view the world through lenses of the stories. Every individual has beliefs according to their religious. Born and raised in India, I practiced Hinduism. Almost every month is dedicated to celebrate a festival; a festival that is celebrated because of the story that lies behind it. The book descirbes that by saying "Myth and ritual are typically tied to the major festivals or holy days of religous tradition so that by …show more content…
On page 22, it states that "The power of the sacred lies in its ability to surround itself with a sense of taboo that forbids all doubt and questioning, seeing such criticism as a sacrilege" This perfectly describes how we believe the stories told to us give us our morals and helps diddereniate the good and the evil. Just like Hinduism, every religion brings in thier own stories that they follow and believe, but at the end they all convey the same moral lesson. It states on page 25, "On the surface, religious traditions semm widely diverse.... On the surface, religons show great diverstiy of stories and world views and yet thier stories all express the fundamental deep structure of the dialectic of the sacred and the holy as it plays out in each tradition" This shows that no matter what religion we are, what traditions we follow we all have same beliefs and learn the same lesson from the sacred and holy stories told to us. Our daily lives are guided through religion, traditions and myth as they are help us keep our faith in God and determine the right and the